Alec Ryder 'DadRyder' (Official Thread)

I wanna get fast to killing aliens, questing, Nomading and sexing up Liam, ain't no one got time for playing dad's matchmaker or hear him have opinions about mah choices! ->>>

Seriously though, I don't want the repeat of AC3 situation. Veteran sarcastic magnet-for-women daddy versus Player Character who of course will be more rookie, unexperienced, etc. And particularly in ME case, Ryder twins will be "bland" because there will be player options to define them. It's way too easy to make a veteran character that is practically designed to appeal to the audience versus a rookie. Don't wanna hear whining for years how people wanted to play Alec instead for self-fullfilement badass does-everything-right fantasy (even in case he turns out to be a villain)

I would love to have a more experienced character (older, in the 40-60 age range) to continue the Mass Effect series.



How can you have a character as great as this (with Clancy Brown's voice, no less) and not let him be your protagonist?

The folly of youth is not a very attractive prospect for me.

Don't know, maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised by the twins.

I'm still hoping we play as RyDad for a little bit at the begining and thats how we select the twin we play. But the difference between the original and new faces looks amazing.

Now I really wanna see how he changes when you edit the twins. I need ME:A NOW!!!! Character Creator is calling me...

From the twitter thread:

Do you think this confirms our Daddy is not going rogue? Or did Mr. Pollner simply choose to ignore the first name?

I'll take that as confirmation. It's what I've been hoping for. I'd prefer Dad to be alive and kicking in this game--same as our sibling--and on our side. 

I did these quickly on the fly, so any complaints about misplaced this or that won't be paid any attention.

"Sara, Scott, if either of you asks whether we are there yet one more time, I'm going to use both of you as target practice."
I was about to pretend I'm angry, but then idea dawned upon me. I looked Scott in the eye who obviously had the same idea, we both breath in deeply and start at the same time: "Are we there yet?"

Then, with a playful grin on my lips, I mentally prepare to go into tactical cloak, just in case because you never know with our dad and I notice Scott's hand flickering with light of biotics as if he was going to form aegis in front of him. Dad just stares at us soullessly for a moment, then sighs, waves his hand and mutters: "...do whatever you want...what have I done to deserve this"

Wait. He was in the first expedition that traveled through the Charon mass relay?

So he lived through the war against the turians? And the peace process that came afterwards? And all the shit that happened in between, such as the developing enmity with the batarians, the contact with other aliens - the asari, the salarians, the elcor and the volus -, plus the years that Shepard served the Alliance, defeated the Reapers and all that shit?

Just how old is he? What is the average lifespan of a human in the ME universe? Isn't it 150? I mean, did humanity really explore and map ALL the star systems of the Milky Way in less than 150 years? And built advanced starships to travel between distant star systems and established colonies in hundreds of worlds in such short amount of time?

That sounds so... unlikely, to say the least.

I like how we went from metaphorical father figure Anderson to literal father figure Alec.


Also is there any info on Mom Ryder? Like, at all?

Some more dad goodness from ames4u from another thread